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A. H. Bryan. M. D. 



Philosophic Consideration 



OF 



UNIVERSAL COSMOGONY 



AND 



ELECTRO-PLANETARY PHENOMENA. 

Supplemented with 

Philosophic Suggestions 

and Demonstrative Principles. 



Rewritten and Rearranged by 

ANTHONY H. BRYAN, M. D. 



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Copyright, 1899, by Anthony H. Bryan. 



1899: 
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PREFACE. 



CHERE are many philosophic questions unanswered, and 
many phenomena unexplained by the text-books on 
philosophy at the present time. I herewith submit a list, 
and respectfully ask the readers of philosophy to examine 
carefully and see whether or not I have furnished a satisfac- 
tory solution of all that are contained in the list. 

What constitutes "the waters ?" Gen. i and 2. How 
was universal cosmogony effected? What constitutes the 
division of the waters? What is a comet? What is its 
tail? How is comet nebulosity effected and affected? Why 
smaller at perihelion and larger at aphelion? Why is the 
earth incandescent in its interior? Why is the earth hotter 
when furthrest from the sun, and colder when nearest to the 
sun? Why are the poles always frozen? Why will we 
freeze in higher altitude in summer time? What causes sun 
spots? How and why is solar heat and light developed? 
Why does heat cause, expansion of matter in various forms? 
Why does matter gravitate? What is the principal cause of 
earthquakes? Why are fossil remains of tropical plants and 
animals found in the frigid zones? What causes the rings of 
Saturn and Jupiter? What causes the glacial period? 



PRINCIPLES. 



6LECTRICITY statically employed, is the cement of 
cohesive attraction between the molecules of all matter, 
be it gaseous, liquid, solid or in simple or compound form, 
and holds all matter down to its normal volume by the exer- 
cise of this function. 

Elasticity is a property inherent in matter, and may be 
exercised by contraction and expansion, just as electricity 
may be employed or disemployed. 

Heat applied will disemploy static electricity, when expan- 
sion will take place : As heat goes out, contraction takes 
place by re-employment of electricity. 

The sun is hot and luminous, stars shine of their own 
native light, Earth is incandescent in its interior, Saturn and 
Jupiter have their incandescent rings and the comet's heat, 
nebulosity and tail are all due to electrofocalization, which is 
effected by their rapid axial revolution ; their calorific force. 



DEMONSTRATIVE PRINCIPLES. 



i . Rotary speed is the surest and most effective means of 
obtaining a voluminous flow of electricity for power or illumi- 
nation purposes; as there is no lost motion to contend with, 
and by an increased speed, the static electricity employed, 
in conserving the revolving body, may contribute to increase 
the current developed by centrifugal force. 

2. Centrifugal force which effects electric current, the 
force of gravitation, will expel matter at the site of sun-spot, 
because the force of gravitation ceases simultaneously with 
sun spot development, while centrifugal force continues. 

3. Solar rotation cannot be calculated from sun-spot any 
more certainly than if ice were depended upon to mark the 
place of beginning. 

4. As there is no lost motion in axial rotation, there will 
be continuous electric current, and every molecule in the 
revolving body affected by the speed of rotary motion, will 
contribute energy to the electric current thus provoked, the 
MORE, as the laceration point is approached by increased 
rotary speed. This may be designated "frictional electricity.' ' 




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5- In this way we effect an electric current as great in 
quantity as all of the static electricity affected in the revolv- 
ing body will equal. 

6. Heat and light are electricity in respective degrees of 
concentration. 

7. All the heat and light developed by combustion is 
effected [by the electricity of oxygen becoming concen- 
trated jointly with the electricity of the matter undergoing 
combustion. 

8. Electricity may be reduced to sun-light and then by 
passing through a lense it may be reduced to fire. All in 
harmony with, and corroborative of, my general idea, whether 
it be internal incandescence or external luminosity. 

9. I have already shown that rapid axial speed of the 
sun effects focalization of the electric current into solar heat 
and light, and that earth's internal incandescence, Saturn's 
rings, the phenomena of the comet in effecting its nebulosity 
and tail, all are due to their respective electric currents focal- 
izing at their various points of incandescence. 

10. Electric concentration takes place by planetary rota- 
tion just precisely as is the case with a dynamo for power or 
illumination purposes, by increasing the speed of the rotating 
body, we thereby approach more nearly the point of lacera- 
tion from the resulting centrifugal force. In this way the 
greatest amount of friction and dis-employment of static 
electricity may be effected. 



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1 1 . Forty-six degrees and fifty-six minutes may be con- 
sidered the width of the equatorial zone of the sun or a 
planet, the equator of which extends into space, and becomes 
the central line of the electric current excited by the axial 
speed of the planet towards which this current flows. This 
electric current is the magnetic force; the force of gravitation: 
it is that force which holds an inferior planet in its orbit, and 
which may focalize inside or outside of the planet by which 
it is excited, and thus effect its internal incandescence, or its 
luminosity. 

12. Because of this current, a planet MUST describe its 
orbit out in space, within the equatorial range of its con- 
trolling planet. 

13. In this way we are enabled to account for why a 
sun-spot disappears when it goes further out than forty-five 
degrees from the solar equator. The range from whence 
this electric current flows, is within the solar equator. 



A SYSTEM OF PHILOSOPHY 

ENTITLED 

" PHILOSOPHIC CONSIDERATION OF UNIVERSAL 
COSMOGONY AND EI^CTRO -PLAN- 
ETARY PHENOMENA." 



BY ANTHONY H. BRYAN, M. D. 



14. All of infinite space is a sea of electricity in which 
was held in suspension all of the matter out of which the 
Almighty proposed to form the planets or heavenly bodies of 
the Universe, hence, their matter must be identical. 

15. This state of preparation constituted "the waters' ' 
upon the face of which, the spirit of God moved in the 
beginning, and their division culminated in the cosmogony of 
the universe. 

16. The spirit of God " moved' ' upon the face of "the 
waters." This may imply that He quickened or com- 
manded the matter of "the waters" to move in electric cur- 
rents to the nuclei of the various planets that now exist; 
and as each nucleus grew larger by aggregation and became 
more magnetic as their magnitude increased, they attracted 
the suspended matter of "the waters" until all matter was 
.exhausted. 

ly. This was the completion of the division of "the 
waters" and the empty interplanetary space became the 
firmament or Heaven. 



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i8. All of created matter, before things were set in order, 
was in the chaotic state, which is to say that all matter was 
unorganized, and was held in suspension in the great electric 
sea until the nuclei of the various planets were given axial 
motion, whereby the electric force of each planet was estab- 
lished, when all of the matter in space gravitated to the 
planet the axial motion of which effected the electric current 
in which it chanced to exist. 

19. Matter thus suspended, uninfluenced by electric 
current or dynamic force, would incline to be at rest, as there 
would be no up nor down; no gravitation nor force to cause 
it to move. 

20. By axial motion, after the Almighty had created all 
matter, the various worlds were formed, and their formation 
continued until the electric sea was exhausted of all cosmic 
matter suspended therein. 

21. There is a speed beyond which, if a body revolving 
upon its axis attains, it will tear asunder; the centrifugal 
force is thus provoked, electricity statically employed as 
the cement of cohesive attraction between the molecules of 
matter in the revolving body, becomes disemployed and 
flows into the center of the body revolving, and out at its 
poles; wherever by its convergence, it may focalize, there 
will be the point of its internal incandescence, and the heat 
of this focalization will by diffusion, warm its body and its 
atmosphere. 



THE SUN. 

CHE Sun contains more matter within its body than all 
other planets combined and on account of its magni- 
tude, density and axial speed, becomes the dynamo it is, 
because the speed of its axial motion provokes the centrifugal 
force to the extent that theintermolecular space of the atoms 
of matter of its constituency is so increased, that the elec- 
tricity statically employed as the cement of cohesive attrac- 
tion in conserving, will flow into its center and out at its poles 
while the electricity of the infinite sea of space flows to it 
and focalizes into the solar heat and light outside of its crust, 
hence its luminous character. 

23. Thus it is with stars that shine oftheirown native light; 
they focalize their current outside of their crust. But for the 
axial speed of the Sun, there would be no solar calorific 
force to effect its heat and light; and there would be no elec- 
tric current established by which it holds the solar system in 
its place. 

24. This electric current going to the Sun, is the force that 
causes the planets of the solar system to describe their orbits 
around the Sun. 

25. Where the rectilineal force of a planet equals the gravi- 
tating force to the Sun, which is the Sun's power of attrac- 
tion, there is where the planet's orbit will be described in 
space. 

26. The earth is also a dynamo, and by its speed of axial 
motion at the equator, which is seventeen miles a minute, it is 



PI,ATE I. 

SATURN, 




PI,ATE II. 




INCANDESCENCE OF EARTH'S INTERIOR- 



The white line paralleled with the equator is where earth's electric 
current focalizes into the heat which causes her internal incandescence, 
just as Saturn's ring of intra-electrofocalization (fig. 2) is effected. 



PI.ATE III. 



SUN-SPOT ILLUSTRATED 




Fig. 1. A planet in proximity to the Sun effecting a spot in the 
solar equator. 

Fig. 2. A planet in proximity to the Sun effecting a spot nearer 
the pole. 



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sufficent to provoke the centrifugal force which develops the 
electric current that holds all terrestrial matter down, and 
even holds the moon in its place. This electric current enters 
into the earth and focalizes into heat and light, hence the 
earth's incandescence in its interior, in the equatorial region, 
but out further in the polar regions it is not so; there is not 
sufficient axial speed to effect electric focalization, and hence 
the poles are always frozen. 

27 If we had no electric focalization in the earth, which is the 
cause of its incandescence in its interior, we would not be 
able to keep comfortably warm in winter time, and it is 
questionable if crops could mature from having so late spring 
time, and fall season setting in so early. 

r 28. The earth might freeze to such a depth that it would 
hardly thaw out in the summer time. 

29. The Sun will shine on either pole for a season at a time at 
the solsticial periods, and even so far as to the arctic circles 
beyond the poles, and yet the poles are always frozen. 

EARTHQUAKE. 

fWWHEN the the earth is passing between two other planets 
^^* of very considerable magnitude, closely approximating 
each other, there is likelihood of a shock to the earth which 
will last but a few seconds, or as long as it will take the 
earth to effect her passage, with her speed of seventy-eight 
thousand miles an hour. The planets between which she 
passes, by their axial motion disturb all the electricity in 



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space between them in effecting their respective electric cur- 
rents which constitute their electric force and which is their 
force of gravitation. 

31 . By their utilization of the electricity in which the earth 
is traveling, earth's electric force is not sufficiently strong to 
prevent her from loosening up into a shock, tremor or earth- 
quake, and hence great fissures or chasms are formed in the 
earth, and auroras, and reddened atmosphere develop because 
of disturbed electric current. 

32. When a planet, sufficiently near the earth affects her 
electric current or force, as the Sun is affected in case of Sun 
Spot, for precisely similar reasons, an earthquake may be 
effected. 

33. There is no doubt but that the Sun is convulsed on the 
occasion of Sun Spot from the causes that effect the spot. 

34. As it may be possible for the earth to be drawn around 
by magnetic influence until its equator would become its polar 
diameter, that might account for why fossil remains of trop- 
ical plants and animals are found in the frigid zones. 

35. This state of things would necessitate the supposition 
thatthe poles were once located at opposite points in the present 
equatorial zone, and that would necessitate the supposition 
that its equatorial diameter bisected the line of its orbit and 
that its poles occupied two points in its present equator, 
where it would have been always frozen; thus we may have 
a solution of the glacial period. 



COMET. 

H COMET is a body composed of matter not unlike that 
of which the earth and all planets of the universe are 
composed, as they were formed from one common fluid body, 
"the waters/' upon the face of which the spirit of God 
moved in the beginning; because it has no pole which points 
with any constancy in any particular direction, it has no 
north nor south pole; but it has an anterior and posterior 
pole, and it travels with its polar diameter in line with line 
of its circuit on the margins of magnetic influence of the 
planets between which it travels through space; the planets 
serving as guys as it were, to hold it in its peculiar circuit. 

37. Its axial speed is so great that it focalizes its electric cur- 
rent in its body into the heat and light which effect its 
nebulosity and tail; its nebulosity is effected by the aqueous 
and gaseous elements of its constituency being held by the 
heat in a state of high expansion and which is greatest at its 
aphelion, because at its remotest distance from the Sun it 
can control a stronger electric current for focalization than it 
can at its perihelion, where the Sun will utilize the electricity 
in its vicinity: This last thought explains why the earth is 
hotter at its aphelion and colder at its perihelion. 

38. The cometic blaze passes out at its posterior pole pre- 
senting an appearance not unlike the ordinary search-light 
extending out .into space for many millions of miles, and 
which is called the tail of the comet, and about the effect of 
which, should it strike the earth, the Scientists of the world 
have been so deeply interested. 



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39- This cometic blaze being essentially Sunshine would 
naturally incline to bear away from the Sun just as Sunshine 
does, and its convexity is toward the Sun often, when in its 
vicinity. 

40. As is the equatorial diameter and the speed of rotation 
of a planet, so will be the electric current developed thereby, 
which may focalize into internal incandescence or external 
luminosity. 

41 . Heat and light are electrofocalization effected by electric 
concentration. 

42. Extra-electrofocalization is effected outside of the re- 
volving planet. 

43. Intra-electrofocalization is effected inside the revolving 
body. 

44. As heat disemploys electricity, statically employed, in 
the various forms of matter when expansion takes place, it 
follows that a magnetic draught of electricity effected by 
other planets approaching the earth, may so affect our 
atmosphere and effect evaporation, and as soon as the vapor 
rises to the higher atmosphere where it is sufficiently cold, 
we have a rain-fall independent of the hot weather to effect 
atmospheric expansion and evaporation. 



SATURN. 

IT IS the exceeding axial speed of Saturn that caused his 
equatorial diameter to be so great, while he is so flat on 
his sides, and for this reason, his electric current developed 



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by such centrifugal force, focalizes outside of his equatorial 
crust into his exterior luminous ring, figs, i and 3, (extra- 
electrofocalization) central to his equator, at the terminus of 
which, on either side, the dark superficial crust is exposed to 
view, and thus develops the intermediate dark ring through 
which the electric current passes and focalizes out further 
toward the pole on either side, and nearer to the center of 
rotation, where the interior bright ring (fig. 2) is developed 
by the incandescence of the cosmic matter from intra-elec- 
trofocalization, which, in shading off, develops the dark or 
"crepe" ring, as it more nearly approaches the pole. 

46. What is true of Saturn in these various phenomena, is 
also true of Jupiter, excepting as they differ in magnitude, 
speed of rotation, distance from the Sun and possibly the 
degree of declination. 

SUN-SPOT. 

H PLANET of magnitude and rapid axial speed, traveling 
in proximity to the Sun will cause the electricity of a 
large area in space to flow to it by diverting it from the Sun, 
whither it was flowing to focalize into solar heat and light, 
instead of which, there will be a dark funnel-shaped spot by 
exclusion called "Sun-Spot. " A planet of such magnitude 
and so magnetic as this, would at the same time, affect 
earth's atmosphere and cause strong Auroras and other elec- 
tric phenomena. 

48. There is no possible light inthe universe which, by its 
interception by any planet or heavenly body intervening it 



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and the Sun, could effect a spot, shade or shadow upon the 
Sun. There is no incombustible matter that would not 
soon become incandescent, while matter combustible would 
as readily dissipate. 

49. As the equatorial zone of a planet moves, axially, with 
greater speed than there is in its polar regions, it develops 
greater centrifugal force in its equator than it does at its 
poles; the Sun being no exception to this rule, it enables us 
to account for the disappearance of a Sun-Spot as it moves 
from the Sun's equator into the polar regions where the elec- 
tric force is not so great as it is nearer the solar equator. 

50. The Sun's poles become incandescent from the calorific 
force of its equatorial zone, where its electrofocalization is 
mainly effected. 

EI/ECTRIC FORCE. 

51. In case of electroplating, the metal, gold for instance, 
made use of being held in suspension in the bath, will gravi- 
tate by electric force, to the various points of appointment, 
until the bath is exhausted of all the electroplating matter 
held in suspension, and all of the work of electroplating is 
accomplished. 

52. This matter, being located within a realm of its own, un- 
affected by terrestrial magnetism or attraction where it has no 
up nor down to contend with, simply moves in obedience to 
electric force, strongly in likeness of "the division of the 
waters" in the first chapter of Genesis. 



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53- We will suppose an enclosure of several acres of 
ground, beautifully set in green grass, contiguous to a college 
of several hundred male students in the month of February, 
when a snow-fall of a foot in depth will occur. 

54. These young men, for their amusement, will resolve 
to roll all of this snow into large balls of varying sizes, from 
three to seven or eight feet in diameter, until all of the 
green sward becomes exposed, and the entire enclosure 
presents the appearance of the stellated canopy above us, 
when we will have a fitting likeness of a universe of worlds 
developed from the cosmic matter originally suspended in 
the infinite electric sea, representing the universal Cos- 
mogony of the Almighty. 

55. Physical law is from "everlasting to everlasting/' and 
is the Will of the Almighty. 

56. "God by His Almighty Energy called all matter into 
existence, after which He willed the osmogony of the Uni- 
verse, and He being the Executor of His will, it was done. 

57. "In the Beginning/' — "The Commencement," refer 
to a point in the longitude of eternity from which Time may 
be measured ; Chronology reckoned upon planetary rotation 
and revolution. 

58. The first expression of the divine Will, of which we 
have a knowledge, was addressed to matter ; The solar nu- 
cleus rotated upon its axis, and eventually "there was light." 

59. Next, by axial rotation, the light was divided from the 
darkness, and day and night were thus effected, and the re- 
sulting interplanetary space became the firmament, Heaven. 



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60. The waters under the Heaven were commanded to be 
gathered together unto one place, and the dry land to appear, 
and the dry land was called Earth. 

61. Rotary motion effects, by various speed, respectively, 
the polar and equatorial diameters of planets by the various 
degree of centrifugal force, during their formative period. 

62. As is the degree of centrifugal force of each planet from 
rotary motion, the electric current excited by the various 
planets will be, and will become the force of gravitation to 
the planets respectively, and may focalize into internal heat 
or external luminosity. 

63. Upon the foregoing principles we account for cosmog- 
ony, solar heat and light, gravitation, sun-spot phenomena, 
planetary internal incandescence, Saturn and Jupiter's rings, 
earthquakes, volcanic developments, phenomena of comets, 
ocean-tides, and excessive hot and cold weather in both 
summer and winter. 

64. All conditions being the same, the foregoing are cor- 
rect, but they may be modified by being further from the 
sun, where the electric field will furnish a greater supply of 
electricity for focalization, while if it were nearer to the sun, 
the sun would focalize the electricity in his vicinity into solar 
heat and light of which the planet, in vicinity of the sun, 
will get but a small per cent of what it might otherwise 
control. 

65. Electricity flowing into the equator of a planet revolv- 
ing rapidly upon its axis may, by focalization, effect incan- 
descence internal to the planet thus revolving. If the speed 



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of rotation be sufficiently great, during its formative period, 
its incandescence will be exposed on account of the flatness of 
its sides from rapid rotation, as an incandescent ring parallel 
with its equator at the distance of focalization from the 
planet's equatorial surface, just as is the case with the planet 
Saturn. 

66. Solar heat and light are extra-electrofocalization. The 
depth of sun-spot is the depth of this electrofocalization, 
which may be hundreds of thousands of miles deep. 

67. Increased magnitude increases orbital radius as dis- 
tance from'controlling planet increases, and correspondently 
increases orbital speed, because all bodies move a degree at 
center and periphery in the same time, be the movement 
orbital or rotary. 

68. Polar speed must be the same forever. The period of 
rotation is forever the same, including nucleine and com- 
pleted stages. 

69. Surface speed will increase as radius of rotation is 
lengthened. 

70. Mars is 4,200 miles in diameter; 141 millions of miles 
from the sun ; completes his orbit around the sun in twenty- 
two months ; rotates upon his axis in 24 hours and 40 min- 
utes ; has a declination of 28 degrees, 42 minutes. 

71 . By being so remote from the sun, where his orbit is out 
in a richer field of electricity than if he were nearer to the sun 
where the sun would draw the more of the electricity from 
the vicinity of Mars, he can focalize, the electricity in his 



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vicinity sufficiently to melt his polar ice and snow. By the 
heat of his focalization his water vaporizes into fog and the 
sunshine cannot dispel it, otherwise he would be a bright 
moon to the earth instead of presenting his characteristic, 
ruddy appearance. 

72. Comets and various planets, in proximity to the earth, 
will effect a cold spell in the summer time, as well as to 
intensify the coldness of the winter, by making a strong 
draft upon the electricity out in space in the vicinity of the 
earth, by lessening the degree of intensity of her internal 
incandescence. If the reverse conditions were to. obtain, by 
a different distribution of the planetary system, we would 
have warm, open, winter-weather, and excessively hot 
summer-weather. It is not unlikely that planetary influence 
effects the development of locust swarms periodically, by 
effecting an unusual degree of intra-electrofocalization in the 
earth, when their deeply buried ova, having waited the 
allotted time, are awakened into life. 

73. It seems that they would develop the first year after 
being deposited as well as at any subsequent period, if the 
conditions of warmth were furnished, 

74. A flint, when struck with steel or other flint, will emit 
sparks of fire from molecular flint dust by the disemployment 
of static electricity. In this way we account for sparks 
under a horses' heel, where disintegration of stone or other 
matter. has been effected, by freeing static electricity. 

75 . Sparks under the electric car develop from current elec- 



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tricity liberated by the rapidly revolving dynamo without 
disintegration. 

76. In a similar manner, we account for atmospheric light- 
ning, the atmosphere having been rarefied by solar heat in 
the disemployment of static electricity, will evidence the 
fact by the development of lightning. 

7 7. If a piston be suddenly plunged into a blind-ended glass 
cylinder, tight-fittingly, fire will be developed when touch- 
wood (spunk) on the inner end of the piston will become 
ignited by concentrating the electricity static in the air into 
fire, no matter how cold the air may be. 

78. Igneous rocks, become so, from being subjected to the 
intensity of heat in the earth at the point of focalization of 
earth's electric current, where there is incandescence. 

79. Magnetic influence of planets effects earthquake convul- 
sions that disturb the evenness of the earth's surface in the 
formation of great valleys and mountains containing igneous 
rocks expelled from the point of earth's internal incandescence. 

80. Where chasms are effected in the sun there will be sun- 
spot phenomena developed; when chasms are effected in the 
earth, like, as in sun-spot, they are effected by planetary 
influence, and will afford opportunity for volcanic develop- 
ment where petroleum, naphtha, inflammable gases, etc., may 
chance to be. It is a mistaken idea that volcanoes develop 
earthquakes ; earthquakes develop the volcano. 

81. When the City of Lisbon sunk into the earth with 
sixty thousands of people, there was no volcano developed. 



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During the recent sun-spot, September, 1899, "Vesuvius 
was aroused into one of the greatest eruptions in all its 
history/ ' 

82. The slow speed of rotation of the moon lessens the degree 
of diversion of the electric current from the earth, and 
accounts for the coldness of the moon. As the moon's poles 
are perpendicular to the earth's poles, she can not affect the 
earth's electric force from axial rotation, as the planets of the 
solar system affect the Sun's electric force in developing the 
phenomena attending sun-spot. Her speed of rotation is too 
slow to even warm her own body by focalization of her elec- 
tric current. 

83. The moon rarefies our atmosphere, which is the condi- 
tion mostfavorable to evaporation, by her rapid orbital speed of 
seventy thousand miles an hour. It matters not whether this 
rarefaction is effected by heat or by planetary influence. If 
the moon had been rotating on her axis within the period of 
ten or twelve hours, including nucleine and completed stages, 
her equatorial diameter would now be much greater and her 
polar diameter would be much shorter than they are. If the 
moon's equator were in the equator of the earth as the 
earth's is in the Sun's equator, the effect of her position and 
speed of rotation would be to divert the electric current of 
the earth to itself in a certain degree, thereby lengthening 
the radius of her own orbit. By thus diverting the current, 
she would impede her gravitation to the earth and focalize 
this current within herself and thus warm her own body in 
some degree, just as the earth is warmed. 



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84. As it is, the moon's electric force from rotary speed is 
not very great, but by her orbital speed, which is exceedingly 
great, she affects our weather by rarefying our atmosphere and 
thus effects our ocean-tides by effecting a strain, as it were, 
upon the electric medium thus: The earth has an electric 
current, which is her force of gravitation, developed by her 
axial rotation, through which she controls the moon in her 
orbit. The moon antagonizes this force of gravitation by the 
centrifugal force of her orbital speed of seventy thousand 
miles an hour, whereby she diminishes earth's force of grav- 
itation, while the earth's centrifugal force, from rotation, 
helps to effect the tides by expulsion. 

85. Exceeding speed of axial rotation of a planet during Its 
formative period, tends to increase its equatorial diameter 
and to shorten its polar diameter. These conditions tend to 
the electrofocalization that effect internal incandescence or 
external luminosity. Very slow speed of rotation of a 
planet during its formative period, therefore, will tend to 
increase polar diameter and to decrease equatorial diameter, 
under which conditions, if they are extreme, the planet will 
be always cold, from first to last, although it is claimed that 
the moon, under these conditions, being cold had died. 

86. As are the polar and equatorial diameters of a planet 
respectively, during their formative period, so they will be 
forever. If they are hot or cold at their completion, so will 
they forever remain. The greater the equatorial diameter of 
a planet and its speed of rotation, the greater will be the 
electric current developed thereby, as those two factors have 
all to do with this development. 



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87. If the earth, maintaining proportions as at present should 
rotate on her axis in ten or twelve hours, her intensity of elec- 
trofocalization would be very much increased internally, if it 
were not rendered externally luminous, in which event, she 
might become a soloid. 

88. The Sun, being a perfect sphere, has a period of rotation 
so mathematically calculated in advance, that his formative 
period could have been calculated only by an Allwise and 
Omniscient Being. The Sun could not have been made a 
perfect sphere with faster or slower rotation. 

89. Matter attracted to a rapidly rotating planet by the elec- 
tric force thus developed, will, after reaching the planet at- 
tracting it, become subject to the repellent influence of the 
centrifugal force of the planet that attracted it, conditioned 
that the force of gravitation of the attracting body is inter- 
cepted by planetary intervention. 

90. It is claimed that earth was once a ball of fire, and that 
her present point of incandescence is where she has cooled to. 
It is also claimed that the heat of the tropical region is effected 
by direct solar radiation, and that the frozen condition of the 
poles is due to obliquity of solar rays. The poles have been 
frozen since time immemorial, and the torrid zone is as hot 
as it was ever known to be. 

91 . The further removed from the Sun a planet may be, the 
warmer it will be, from its own intra-electrofocalization, by 
being in a richer electric field, which by far, more than com- 
pensates for what may be lost of solar heat from increased 
distance from the Sun. The foregoing is an explanation for 



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why the nebulosity and tail of a comet are so much increased 
in volume and length respectively, as its distance from the 
Sun is increased, and why they are decreased as it more 
closely approaches the Sun. 

92. This intra-electrofocalization vaporizes the aqueous 
matter of the comet into its characteristic nebulosity and also 
effects the electric blaze which passes out, from its posterior 
pole for many millions of miles into space, and which is called 
the tail of the comet. 

93. On the 28th of October, 1828, Biela's Comet was 
found to be nearly three times as far from the sun as it was 
December 28th, yet in October its diameter was twenty-six 
times as great as in December; that is, its solid contents in 
October were 16,800 times greater than in December. 
Halley's Comet, three days before it reached its perihelion, 
was as bright as a fixed star — by passing out of a rich elec- 
tric field, it lost its nebulosity, and by being so close to the 
Sun, the last of its vaporous nebulosity was dissipated by 
the Sun. 

BINARY STAR. 

94. A long-poled nucleus, with two equatorial centers of 
electrical receptivity, might develop into a binary star, 
(lusus naturae) during the epoch of universal cosmogony, 
with all of the general character of an ordinary star. 



GLOSSARY. 



Binary — Two, double. 

CENTRIFUGAL — From the center. 

CHASM — A great opening in a planet. 

COSMOGONY— World-formation. 

DIAMETER — Distance through. 

Divert — To turn from. 

ELECTROFOCALIZE— To reduce electricity to fire. 

EFFECT — The result of some cause; to cause something 
done. 

Ex— Out; out of. 

Extra — Out of ; beyond. 

EXTRAFOCALIZE — To reduce to fire; outside or beyond. 

FOCUS— Fire. 

FOCALIZE — To reduce to fire. 

FOCALIZATION — Reducing to fire. 

GRAVITATION — Moving by electric force towards the 
planet that excites this force. 

IGNEOUS ROCKS— Rocks that have been melted by heat. 

INCANDESCENCE— White heat. 

INCANDESCENT— White with heat. 

Intra— Within. 

INTRAFOCALIZATION — Reducing to fire within. 

NUCLEUS— The original, small amount that becomes 
larger by being added to. 

ORBIT — The path described by a heavenly body. 

PHENOMENA — Things or appearances that are seen or 
otherwise known to exist. 

Proximity — Nearness to something. 

Rarefy — To make thin and larger. 

Revolve— To turn over. 

Rotate — To turn, as a wheel on a spindle. 

Static — In a state of rest. 



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